Damn,I fall more in love w/ my gravity feed everyday--if I had to listen to that racket,I might consider going back to wood. Yes, I would hear it in this 200 yr old farm house. That would keep my Labs barking all night. Thank you girlie- girls for posting that

Before installing a stoker boiler like that, the first step is to make a sound proof room. After that If you can't sleep from it being to quiet, you can always sleep in there and count the clanging of the coal.

The only noise I hear at my house is 2 minutes to load in the morning and 2 minutes to load at night.

EasyRay wrote:Before installing a stoker boiler like that, the first step is to make a sound proof room. After that If you can't sleep from it being to quiet, you can always sleep in there and count the clanging of the coal.

The only noise I hear at my house is 2 minutes to load in the morning and 2 minutes to load at night.

Really, it's not that bad, you can hear it upstairs, but no louder that an oil burner, just cheaper noise. The modine heater in my garage is alot louder than the stoker. Actually the noise from you having to manually shovel coal would bother me more

When I used to shake the old Buderus hand fed the wife and kids would cringe. Granted the new Keystoker 90 has more white noise, due to the business end of a stoker, that terrible noise of shaking the grate is not missed, and the consistent heat of the Keystoker is much better.

I don't understand all that--I shake twice a day--about 5 or 6 short choppy ones--takes about 3 seconds each time--topping off takes about 10 seconds twice a day--yes--I timed the proceedure last night & this AM--my Grandmom Altomari lived in Frankford (Phila) & the elevated train went right past the 2nd story window where I slept--I came in from Bucks County (my dads horse farm near Doylestown)--it used to keep me up every time it went by--Grandmom said I'd get used to it--I never did--I guess it comes down to what we are defining as quiet ---White Noise??? the only noise I want to hear is the coyotes up in the rear tree-line